Judith 16:14
The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and they have killed them like children fleeing away: they perished in battle before the face of the Lord my God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Filii puellarum compunxerunt eos, et sicut pueros fugientes occiderunt eos : perierunt in prælio a facie Domini Dei mei.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Judith 16:12
- υἱοὶ κορασίων κατεκέντησαν αὐτούς, καὶ ὡς παῖδας αὐτομολούντων ἐτίτρωσκον· ἀπώλοντο ἐκ παρατάξεως κυρίου μου.
Haydock's commentary
Damsels; young boys. Syriac, "they run them through, as if they had been damsels."
Children, or "slaves." (Syriac) Being thus overtaken, what could they do but sue for pardon? (Calmet)
Before. Greek, "of the Lord," &c.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.